Project background - Partners

Project Partners

 

PricewaterhouseCoopers

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is a global professional services company, employing over 146,000 people in 150 countries. PwC channels knowledge and value through its lines of service and 22 industry-specialised practices.

PwC’s Sustainable Business Solutions team has experience of working with both public and private sector organisations to examine how community and environmental benefits can be maximised within the current country-specific and EU legislative environment. PwC has been active in procurement review and benchmarking, defining sustainable procurement objectives, strategy and policy, development of sustainability criteria for procurement policies and measuring economic, environmental and social impacts.

 

For more information: www.pwc.com/sustainability

Significant

Significant has been an independent research and consultancy firm since 2003. Significant is market leader in the field of public procurement within the Netherlands and advises clients on the implementation of Sustainable Procurement and Corporate Social Responsibility. Consultants of Significant have carried out research and consultancy projects on public procurement for more than 20 years and have a broad experience in conducting methodologically complex studies based on large-scale data collection.

Significant is closely associated with the development of policy on Sustainable Procurement within the Netherlands and the development of environmental requirements. Recently, it completed the Sustainable Procurement Public Sector Monitor 2006 (Monitor Duurzame Bedrijfsvoering Overheden 2006). This large-scale study was carried out for SenterNovem and the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, and shows a large similarity to the current study on Green Public Procurement. The Monitor is widely regarded as a state-of-the-art method for measuring levels of Green Public Procurement.

For more information: www.significant.nl

Ecofys

Ecofys is an internationally operating consultancy with offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, Belgium, France, Poland, UK, Spain, Italy, Turkey and Switzerland. Founded in 1984, Ecofys is the leading company on sustainable energy in the Netherlands and one of the largest of its kind in the world. Its areas of expertise include technological, organisational and managerial aspects.

For the GPP Project, Ecofys is contracted for its technical expertise concerning the development of a methodology to measure the financial and environmental costs/benefits of GPP.

For more information: www.ecofys.nl